Category Archives: Christmas

This is one reason why we never want to be away from the family for Christmas!  We are not as complete as we want it to be, but it’s better than nothing 🙂  We love celebrating every single celebration!  This is the last for Christmas with my Dad’s side of the family. So if we have plans to leave for out of town, we do it after all the celebrations 🙂  

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The day after Christmas has been the same for me ever since I can remember.  After a late night – we wake up late then open the gifts under our Christmas tree 🙂  Everyone just stays home

A nice mess 🙂  We normally sort the gifts out ourselves, but this year i asked help from my household staff to sort it already

When it is already noon time and time to eat lunch – I wake the kids up or else it will be hard to start the day with them- so they come down in their pajamas and we open gifts 🙂

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After dinner, we rush for mass at Lolo Benny’s house.  Lolo makes sure that we all spend Christmas with him because he also makes it a point to be back in the country so he can spend it with us

I love it!!!  Tita Nedy brought some Christmas animals to celebrate with us 🙂

And they were part of our picture taking session 🙂

I got my wish too and we also had a choreographed Family photo with the help of my cousins, Catherine, Nina and Katrina.  They hired a photographer, Tito Patrick put up the lights and we had an hour of picture taking with Lolo!

Previous entry: Christmas Photo Shoot December 25, 2012 

Katrina prepared different pegs but she eventually went with these

Our props 🙂  Thanks Kat for organizing this

And here we are 🙂

And some of my photos

I love it that Nic Nic loves Golden Spoon!!  I caught her getting her Golden Spoon for dessert 🙂

This year we had a late dinner after mass and after picture taking!  Very nice!

Then we had Christmas songs during dinner 🙂

Then we greeted each other at 12 midnight!!!  Afterwhich we went up to play Tombola – sort of like Bingo but an Italian version

Thank you to Tita Nedy for organizing this and for the wonderful prizes

Our guest from Italy won!  The prizes were bags from Marc Jacob, Ferragamo and Gucci

Lucky Kathleen!! 🙂

And there was still a noche buena spread upstairs!!!  WOW!!! We still all ate again after Tombola 🙂

Still partly covered because they thought we would not eat – BUT WE DID! haha

Pasta Gliceria which is my request always!! We all love this!!  Thanks Tita Len for making sure this is always in the menu!! YUM!

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Thank you Gerry and Tina for always hosting our family Christmas dinner.  What a beautiful Christmas tree by Rustan’s Flower Shop 🙂

Picture taking 🙂

matching shirts – Kuya Mon and Jaime

James and Dad

We all LOVE DAD!

The de Jesus girls love Dad 🙂

The kids all love Dada

So nice of Tita Minnie to always pass by to greet the family

Opening of gifts…gifts…gifts!! 🙂

My gift from James

Which is the same with 3 others! haha!! iPhone 5! 🙂 White – Black – White- Black! 

Tina happily opening her gift- iPad mini!!  Truly we are the APPLE FAMILY 🙂

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I am so happy!!!!  They are back for Christmas!! Our good friends Suharto and Rina

Their Secret Garden Christmas tree all the way from Harrod’s London 🙂  

Nice to have Juan Miguel because we always have free and great entertainment – this time with back up singers- Pia and Marlene

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I love the bread pudding of Trish!! Also a favorite of her cousin, Pia!!  I am hoping Trish will sell this so we can order!!! YUM!!!

I asked for a tour of the house again to see what’s new and through the years more things are added into their home.  Suharto and Rina just do it themselves and it is beautiful because it is a reflection of their taste – obviously very good taste!

Previous entry:  House with a Personalized Touch August 18, 2007 

I love these artworks by Roberto Chabet!  These were given to Suharto by the artist who is his cousin!

And the den which has evolved too!!  

Giveaway by Rina 🙂

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